As regular readers will know, our other motorsport passion here at speedhillclimb.com is long distance endurance racing, and especially ACO Rules racing which revolves around the Le Mans 24 Hours race.

The Start/Finish Straight at the Le Mans Circuit

Last week, as part of his annual vacation, Mr Editor took the long trek down to La Sarthe for the World’s Greatest Motor Race as a spectator. The weekend turned out to not be the usual 4 day party and race-fest due to the events of the first 15 minutes of the main event.